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@sadolite
More unending mindless babble
omg UwU :3 hi
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The most reliable source of information are of course, complete statistics.
With complete statistics, person can find correlations and test them for consistency.
Anything outside of complete statistics can be labeled as unreliable.
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Its all about the knowledge, really.
Anyone who blindly trusts someone just because that someone is called "scientist" is just a sheep.
Scientists provide theories which they back up with facts.
However, the problem is that despite using facts as basis, scientists are often wrong.
Thats called wrong conclusion derived from facts.
Person can use fact as a premise, and arrive at the wrong conclusion.
This mainly happens because there is unknown information which wasnt included among facts, or because incorrect information got included with facts.
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@sadolite
Imagine some one on a website responding to your posts with unending mindless babble.
Dont imagine that. Imagine your happy place.
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@Double_R
A DART thread that stays on topic? You must be new here.
Yeah, I just arrived.
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This topic is just for presenting arguments for why you believe.
Now, attacking each other's arguments might be a bit off topic, and would eventually derail the point of the topic which is to say what convinced you and not to try to attack other's argument.
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@Tradesecret
I would appreciate the evidence.
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@sadolite
Why do you always sound angry?
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Why would a democrat assassinate Trump?
Before Trump, Republican party could at least pretend it was about family conservative values.
Trump turned it into a party of liars, comedians, and dirty perverts who lack basic manners.
Republican party will never recover from Trump. It will never be about conservative values again. From now on, it will be whatever flies with MAGA.
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I dont mean to start any debate here.
I am just curious as to what convinced you that God exists or if you are atheist, that he doesnt exist.
I know for atheists, there is problem of evil, and the problem of who created God.
While for religious, there is uncaused cause and the need for the creator of laws of the universe.
So, other than these, what exactly convinced you that there is God? Or if atheist, what convinced you that there is no God?
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Math has limitations.
But just as Kim Jong il says,
When you add one drop of water to another drop of water, they become one bigger drop of water. They dont become two.
While numbers are based on arbitrary selection, as they are arbitrarily assigned to things, they have lots of practical use.
In fact, numbers are probably the closest thing to science that we have.
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@FLRW
If he left proof of his existence, then people would believe in him. I guess he didnt want for people to believe in him based on evidence. He chose to remain stealth until judgment day when Jesus will come back to kill the entire planet.
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@sadolite
do you want them outside of town in the woods
How would they buy alcohol in the woods?
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So consciousness is just ability to gather knowledge and make decisions?
But what separates human consciousness from animal consciousness?
Is it just larger body of knowledge and different decisions being made?
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Just a decade ago, everyone would say that DSLR is far superior to smartphone camera.
And for the most of the smartphone history, that claim was correct.
Smartphone for a long time was just there to take simple low quality photos and videos.
It had no any special settings. Photos were often blurry. In low light, quality significantly decreased. Videos werent as smooth as in DSLR.
However, in the past decade, smartphones took a huge improvement.
Shutter speed is crucial for quality of photos and videos.
The main difference between DSLR and smartphone for a long time was that smartphone didnt let you control shutter speed.
In the past decade, smartphones got the option to control shutter speed manually, and this basically put smartphones on equal ground to DSLR.
It allowed people to control the main settings, as shutter speed determines if you want movement blur or not.
With high enough shutter speed, there is no blur in photos or videos.
Whats also important to note is that unlike DSLR, the smartphone can simply be updated from settings. The update further improves camera quality with each new update. After you buy smartphone, smartphone gets better over time with updates.
DSLR doesnt.
I have been comparing photos of different DSLR cameras to latest smartphone cameras today.
The difference in quality is no longer noticable.
So, why would someone pay extra money for DSLR, when smartphone is now just as good?
The new smartphones have 200 megapixel cameras, can record 8k video...
I guess the only difference would be sensor size. But that difference is simply not noticable anymore in quality of photos and videos.
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Well, I always thought internet was fake.
Even on YouTube, same comments keep gettinng posted over and over for thousand times.
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Yes, the world is fake, but good news is that you can create an imaginary world in which everything is perfect. Or you can drink.
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@TheUnderdog
I thought you would have hat at least 68 left beliefs.
Some leftist beliefs are stupid.
There are different leftist ideologies and groups.
There are those who believe that they must oppose whatever right wing groups support.
Its a herd mentality in some.
However, herd mentality has a weakness, because sometimes the other herd has some good ideas and good uses too.
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@FLRW
Did you know that Bible says how woman's body does not belong to the woman?
"The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband.".
1 Corinthians 7
And thats New Testament!
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@TheUnderdog
You have at least 40 Left wing beliefs, 25 right wing beliefs, 1 preagmatic response, and 13 Other.
Well, I am mostly left wing.
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@TheUnderdog
1. The question here is do you believe Biden or Trump won in 2020?
Biden won.
2. If someone is accused of rape, do you support a conviction only if there is evidence or do you believe the victim unconditionally on the grounds that evidence is hard to get for rape trials?
Only if there is evidence. Women are famous for lying and making false reports.
4. Do you think CRT is a serious problem in schools?
No. I think CRT is mostly good.
5. Do you believe Hitler was a left or right winger?
Hitler was a bit of both. In economy, he was mostly left wing.
6. Do you think it's morally good to have consensual sex with people?
Sure.
7. Do you think the voting age should be increased to get more mature votes, decreased to get more votes and a more inclusive democracy, or kept the same?
Decreased.
8. Supporting Qualified immunity is the opposite position to what BLM advocates; they want Qualified immunity repealed so if a police officer kills someone on the line of duty, they have to go to court over it. Qualified immunity doesn't allow this. Do you believe Qualified immunity should be repealed?
Qualified immunity should be repealed.
9. You misunderstood the question. Femenists argue that business owners are (subconsciously) sexist because they tend to pay women less than they tend to pay men. The opposing view is that the buisinesses have no incentive to be sexist and men tend to be more productive in order to earn a pay increase. Which view do you agree with?
I would say that most buisnesses want men, so they pay them more. I wouldnt say its sexist. Its just how market works.
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I have to say, my desire to watch anime has really died over the past decade.
I prefer movies and comedy now.
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I get drunk and watch Hunger Games.
I find that a better way to live life than:
You are invited to a 90-day wilderness retreat where you eat right, sleep right, live according to a schedule, exercise your body, exercise your mind, and have nothing to entertain you besides a larger-than-life message that seems to have reached you from a supernatural place of origin
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@sadolite
Do you go around saying lalalalallalala when you are alone? Do your friends know you are a caveman who thinks rape is okay?
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@Tradesecret
I ACTUALLY said that atheists and non-Christians can be good people.
No.
Please copy paste part of text in post 8 which says that atheists can be good people.
I will wait.
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@Tradesecret
Oh, so the fact that I say everyone is in the same boat and needs God is insulting to you?
No. Do you have reading difficulty?
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@Swagnarok
The problem here is that the bulk of your list involves the government forcing people to behave X or Y way, or robbing them of money that belongs to them through undue taxation
Really? Taxation is theft? I mean, okay.
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@Swagnarok
this means either some greatly expanded Medicaid-for-all scheme or nationalizing hospitals so that they're public employees.
Wrong.
It just means that private hospitals by law must provide services to those who cant afford it, for free.
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@Tradesecret
These things explain why atheists and other non-Christians can do good things and not murder people.
A more simple explanation would be that atheists can be good people.
That is something your idiotic Christian brain cannot even imagine.
Yet they remain tainted by sin and this impacts everything they do.
Really? And you wonder why people insult you.
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@Tradesecret
"Who will decide what is right and wrong"?
The Bible will decide, obviously.
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@Tradesecret
You are correct that without a set of objective standards, then anything goes.
Are you speaking from experience?
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@TheUnderdog
- Reparations
Sure.
- Citizens united
Sure.
- First past the post
Not sure about it.
- Higher taxes on the wealthy
Sure.
- Additional gun control
Total gun ban.
- Climate change alarmism
Yes.
- Corporate welfare
Sure.
- 2020 election
It happened?
- AI
I like AI.
- Income tax
Sure.
- Relocating peaceful (undocumented/illegal) immigrants(to either their home country or to blue counties).
No.
- Big tech censorship
No.
- Medicare for all
No. Why would someone who can pay for it get it for free?
- Affirmitive action
Yes.
- Believe women, good or bad?
I dont understand.
- Death penalty for felonies
No.
- Abortion for consensual sex
Sure.
- Felons voting(assuming you back incarceration)
Well, not sure about that one.
- Homeschooling
Yes, homeschooling is good.
- Drag queens for children
Only if children want to see drag queens.
- Teacher salary raises
No. I like private schools where teachers are payed per efficiency.
- Increase Military spending
Yes. I believe military is the top priority. Its the wall that stands between us and Putin.
- Circumsising infants
Thats just wrong.
- Energy
Well, I do like nuclear energy, but so far coal is best in the economical sense.
- Electoral college
I dont really like it.
- Ye West
I dont know much about him.
- Ukraine-Russia Conflict
I support Ukraine.
- Gay marraige
Gay marriage is fine.
- Gas Sales Tax
No.
- Churches
Sure, but I would prefer some non-Christian churches. I think other Gods should be worshipped too.
- Getting fired for being LGBT
Well, unless someone is having sex at work, I dont see whats the big deal. People can fire anyone for anything, its just kinda strange.
- Getting fired for being conservative/unvaccinated
As I said, people can fire anyone for anything.
- Refusing service to LGBT customers
Well, you can technically refuse service to anyone.
- Hard vacciene mandate (for customers)
Only if there is some actual danger.
- Censorship for far left (flag burners)
No.
- Censorship for far right (white supremests)
No.
- Porn
Sure.
- GMOs
Eh, some are safer than others.
- Israel-Palestine conflict
Israel is abuser.
- PR statehood
I really dont have opinion on that one.
- DC statehood
No opinion.
- CRT
I dont know what that is.
- Crypto Currency
Sure, but keep in mind that dollar is most important.
- Birth control
Sure.
- Minimum wage
No.
- Individual welfare
I believe state has duty to help the ones who cant survive or succeed without such help.
- Oil nationalization
No.
- Veganism
No.
- Hitler
Bad.
- Tariffs
No.
- Gender transitioning for minors
Yes.
- Sex
What about sex?
- Police body cameras
Yes.
- Yemen-Saudi Arabia conflict
I think Yemen is the better guy there, but Saudi Arabia is more important for US.
- Furries
Sure.
- Subsidize renewable energy
Sure.
- Planned parenthood funding
It should be private company. It shouldnt be funded by government.
- Should employers be required to provide free birth control?
No. Condoms arent really that expensive, and people who have abortions should pay for them in money.
- Enviornmental regulations
Well, I dont like breathing in smoke. Do you?
- LGBT couples adopting
Sure.
- Tough on weed
Yes.
- Tough on vape
Yes.
- Tough on Nicotine
Yes.
- Voting
People should vote?
- Defund the police
No.
- Defunding the FBI
No.
- Adultury
Sure, I dont judge.
- Qualified immunity support
I am not sure I know what that is.
- Constitutional carry
Guns bad.
- Should prostitution be legal(unmarried people)?
Yes.
- Metric system
Yes.
- Hyde Amedment
Eh. Not good enough.
- Wage gap
Ban luxury items, then I dont care what the wage is.
- Abortion for rape victims.
Assuming they want it.
- Cultural Approporitation
Now thats nonsense.
- Transgenderism
I think society doesnt get to dictate private life.
- Trans people competing in women's sports
Sure, although not if they are gonna win easily.
- Creationism
Sure.
- Religion
Sure.
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How would I know? I am a polytheist now.
My atheist past is behind me.
But if you want to know why atheists arent more evil,
Its because there is no need to be.
Atheists mind their own buisness and have no objective morality, so they dont need to go around executing people. They have one life and they wanna have fun.
Christians have to justify lots of horrible things their God did.
Can you justify so many horrible things and be a good person at the same time? Nuh uh!
Please Jesus, dont torture me for all eternity!
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@sadolite
things this generation cant even figure out how they did them
So your thinking is limited to just copying the ancient people?
Well, why are you using the internet then? Be a good caveman and go to your cave and make stones.
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@FLRW
I just figured that
If state collects taxes from private companies to pay for private company's services to poor people...
A more simple way is to simply force private companies to give services for free to poor people.
It skips the whole need for taxes.
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1. Hospitals have duty to provide service for free to those who cant afford it.
2. Private schools have duty to provide education for free to those who cant afford it.
3. Landlords have duty to provide housing for free to those who cant afford it.
4. Stores have duty to provide food for free to those who cant afford it.
5. Water and basic clothes are free for those who cant afford them.
6. Military production is privately owned, and companies compete to sell military products to the state.
7. People have obligation to work if able.
8. Government's policy is service for service. Government doesnt provide services to those who refuse to provide services to the government.
9. Bigger companies are expected to pay more in taxes and more in free services.
10. Government will support struggling buisnesses.
11. When government needs some job to be completed, it will direct that job to private companies.
Government will offer reward, and the company that completes the job gets the reward.
12. Government will cut out undesirable production
13. State will own a part of the market, and act as buyer and seller.
14. Local companies act as local governments who put state's law in effect.
15. Government will print certain amount of money to increase money supply.
16. Private companies regulate free services, but answer to government.
17. The basis of economy is competition and citizen report.
18. The laws are based on survival of the state and government.
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@TheUnderdog
You can make that argument with abortion.
You can, but you dont have to. Thats the beauty of arbitrary morality. It doesnt require any consistency.
Is it merely what the democrat party has selected that you would believe?
Well, maybe. I am not sure who selected it. Its just how it is.
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a. The right to an abortion
Abortion should be available.
b. The right to own an AR 15
No, you do not get to own that.
c. The right to be undocumented
Sure.
d. The right to be unvaccinated
Well, there is no such right. You know how militaries get to kill civilians under excuse of protecting more civilians? You get vaccinated under excuse of protecting others.
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@Swagnarok
I will make a really simple way to run a country. I will post it tommorrow.
I think that world deserves to know how to run a country in an easy way that is also the best and also doesnt result in any debt.
Its focused on completely private economy, but with some Socialism that is privately regulated.
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@ebuc
I am a meat eater. I like vitamin B12.
While meat eating is bad for health, its just a fact that vegetables taste like crap.
Now, eggs, as a vegetarian alternative, are slightly better than just going on fruit and vegetables.
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@hey-yo
Okay, your calculator says about 2 liters, which is too little.
Fix your calculator.
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@hey-yo
Although there is an average, a doctor would help identify a more exact number.
I dont trust doctors. They work for the scientific community.
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I miss the times where one had to have high morality to be a leader.
These days, they just let anyone who is funny enough in a right way to be a leader.
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@Swagnarok
I think there's a place for contracting out public functions to the private sector. But I also want some of the reverse
Government producing something is usually bad.
Thats because in buisness,
If I own a buisness, I make money from it, I do everything to reduce cost, increase earning and innovation.
But if government owns my buisness, unless my wage greatly increases with buisness's success, I have little to no incentive to actually try.
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@Swagnarok
I don't think public schools should be done away with altogether
I think they should be done away with altogether.
Thats mostly because public schools have lazy teachers, and government regulated education.
Teachers dont try hard enough, while blaming student's failure on a student.
I have seen the difference between private and public schools, and difference is huge.
It feels like children in public schools are being robbed of actual education.
Also, private schools compete, where public schools dont give a shit about anything because they are not competing with anyone.
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